Today we have a very special visitor visa edition of the Dubai News Roundup.

First off, we're still following the Shahar Peer story. The latest is that the Israeli player was refused a visa into the United Arab Emirates to compete in the WTA Dubai Open because of ... wait for it ... Gaza.

Yes, there's a new company line about avoiding potential protests and the player's own well-being, so that's why she's banned from the tournament.

But the World Tennis Association is considering pulling out of the Dubai Championship altogether.

Whoa.

And now Israeli Andy Ram is applying for a visa to compete in the men’s tournament later in the month.

Yeah, good luck with that.

In other banning-people-from-Dubai news, British author Geraldine Bedell has apparently been banned from the first annual International Festival of Literature in Dubai because her novel has got some of the gay in it.

And Islam is not down with the gay. At all.

However the UAE is letting some people in - Coldplay is playing a show in Abu Dhabi, and earning a cool $2 million for it.

(This article mistakenly says Emirates Palace is in Dubai, but it's actually in the Dhabi.)